Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_identities_
Point of View:3rd person
Protagonist:the man What type of character is the Protagonist? round character Antagonist:the cop
Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) suburbs, later at night calm but maybe a bit cold.
Type of Conflict:man vs. man.
Describe the main conflict:the man goes for a walk runs in to some sketchy looking people then a cop shows up, he expects the cop too help him so he reaches for his identification but the cop reacts and shoots.
Describe the Climax of the Story:when he finds himself lost in the suburbs.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?: He gets scared and shoots.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is identities and the theme of the story is the mans identity.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?: Because the main conflict is a identity mix up which is a big part of the theme.
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?: Becuase it is the high point of the story so it has much to do with what is to come.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes)
Simile: seedy looking grocery stores.
Metaphor: Fences here are little more than fragments.
Personification: Darkness has quietly been settling like soot.
Symbol:but toward his wallet for identity.
Foreshadowing (give both elements):he hopes his day old beard which he strokes upward with the heel of his hand, will, when combined with his clothes, help him to blend in
Irony: he reaches his hand not in the air as he was ordered to, but toward his wallet for identity.
Imagery: The smell of burning leaves stirs the memories of childhood car rides, narrow lanes adrift with yellow leaves, girls on plodding horses, unattended stands piled high with pumpkins, onions, or beets. Completion 5/5 Content 5/10 Effort 4/5 total 14/20
Many different signs of human nature are shown throughout the short story "identities". Different acts such as the stereotypi ng, irrational fear and the thirst for adventure or the want for more in life. The Man demonstrates this by going for a drive after thinking about childhood memories, while thinking he drives to far and gets lost in another neighbourhood. Once The Man enters the different neighbourhood he shows another sign of human nature, stereotyping. He stereotypes the people standing in the street considering them hooligans. By seeing these people in the neighbourhood it leads him too another form of human nature, irrational fear. He decides its best to phone home but to avoid the hooligans. As he looks for a phone he doesnt notice the cop following him, stereotyping him as a car theif not an owner this causes the cop too start getting an irrational fear of The Man. All of this together gave The Man a false sense of hope while the cop decided to shoot as they were both caught up in different forms of human nature.
Point of View:3rd person
Protagonist:the man
What type of character is the Protagonist?
round character
Antagonist:the cop
Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere)
suburbs, later at night calm but maybe a bit cold.
Type of Conflict:man vs. man.
Describe the main conflict:the man goes for a walk runs in to some sketchy
looking people then a cop shows up, he expects the cop too help him so he reaches for his
identification but the cop reacts and shoots.
Describe the Climax of the Story:when he finds himself lost in the suburbs.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?: He gets scared and shoots.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is identities and the theme of the story is the mans identity.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?: Because the main conflict is a identity mix up which is a big part of the theme.
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?: Becuase it is the high point of the story so it has much to do with what is to come.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes)
Simile: seedy looking grocery stores.
Metaphor: Fences here are little more than fragments.
Personification: Darkness has quietly been settling like soot.
Symbol: but toward his wallet for identity.
Foreshadowing (give both elements): he hopes his day old beard which he strokes upward with the heel of his hand, will, when combined with his clothes, help him to blend in
Irony:
he reaches his hand not in the air as he was ordered to, but toward his wallet for identity.
Imagery: The smell of burning leaves stirs the memories of childhood car rides, narrow lanes adrift with yellow leaves, girls on plodding horses, unattended stands piled high with pumpkins, onions, or beets.
Completion 5/5
Content 5/10
Effort 4/5
total 14/20
Many different signs of human nature are shown throughout the short story "identities". Different acts such as the stereotypi ng, irrational fear and the thirst for adventure or the want for more in life. The Man demonstrates this by going for a drive after thinking about childhood memories, while thinking he drives to far and gets lost in another neighbourhood. Once The Man enters the different neighbourhood he shows another sign of human nature, stereotyping. He stereotypes the people standing in the street considering them hooligans. By seeing these people in the neighbourhood it leads him too another form of human nature, irrational fear. He decides its best to phone home but to avoid the hooligans. As he looks for a phone he doesnt notice the cop following him, stereotyping him as a car theif not an owner this causes the cop too start getting an irrational fear of The Man. All of this together gave The Man a false sense of hope while the cop decided to shoot as they were both caught up in different forms of human nature.
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